Beautiful Soup

BS return broken head data

Bug #1631353 reported by lukas
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Bug Description

Documentation says:

The contents of a <SCRIPT> tag should not be parsed as HTML.

but when I tried parse head where in script tag was HTML tag:

(...) h=window.location.protocol+"//",r='<body onload="'; (...)

the BS return

(...) h=window.location.protocol+"//",r='</script></head></html>

so BS split remain head section just before `<body` text.

beautifulsoup4==4.5.1 + lxml==3.6.4 + python 2.7

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Leonard Richardson (leonardr) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to file this bug. It's easier for me to reproduce issues like this if I have the entire document to look at. When I don't have this information, I do the best I can.

Since I don't have the document that causes this problem for you, I created a hypothetical document based on the markup you provided and the fact that you mentioned a "head section".

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
doc = """<html><head><script>
h=window.location.protocol+"//",r='<body onload="';
</script></head></html>"""

I ran this document through Beautiful Soup using the lxml parser:

soup = BeautifulSoup(doc, "lxml")
print soup

Here's the output:

<html><head><script>
h=window.location.protocol+"//",r='<body onload="';
</script></head></html>

As you can see, I can't duplicate the problem. If you'd like to send me the full document that causes the problem for you, feel free to reopen this issue.

Changed in beautifulsoup:
status: New → Invalid
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